Following the premature end of his extraordinary career as a concert cellist, Julian Lloyd Webber has decided on his next big move - to join Live Music Now, the charity created by Yehudi Menuhin and Ian Stoutzker. "We are delighted that Julian has chosen… [read more]

Earlier this month, Live Music Now signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, together with the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), British Lung Foundation (BLF) and the Mental Health Foundation. The Sidney De Haan Centre… [read more]

It's coming up for thirty years to the day since Live Music Now launched their Scottish branch. It was August 24th, 1984, the Edinburgh Fringe was in full swing, and a small crowd gathered for lunch in Edinburgh's St Andrews Square to… [read more]

Live Music Now is pleased to announce the appointment of Helen Mahoney as Branch Director for the North East, a region that includes the North East, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the East Midlands. For the past three years Helen has run her own arts management… [read more]

Live Music Now and Nottingham's City Arts have formed a partnership to deliver a 20 week combined music and arts residency programme in a care home for older people in Nottinghamshire.The programme is funded by Nottinghamshire County Council. The sessions began last week in… [read more]

Congratulations to the LMN musicians, nurses, doctors and patients who participated in the innovation study designed and led by East Kent Hospitals Univeristy NHS Foundation Trust and University of Kent's School of Psychology. The study has been listed as a finalist in the EKHUFT… [read more]

Kimie Composition Prize Matt Zurowski was on holiday from university last summer, about to enter his third year studying music composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. Out of the blue, he received an email from his tutor inviting him to submit a… [read more]

A unique collaboration between musicians, clinicians and academics, led to an 'Innovation Study' in Canterbury this Spring. Working with patients in hospital recovering from brain injury, it showed that high quality interactive live music performances can have great… [read more]

LMN Audience Appeal Could you help raise money for LMN projects by hosting an Audience Appeal bucket collection at one of your concerts? From school hall to symphony hall, a personal appeal to your audience, from you as a beneficiary of the scheme, will help… [read more]